Help me give my students storage cabinets so we can store our percussion equipment. Our lessons are in the auditorium which is used for multiple school functions. This will keep our equipment secure and safe!
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Some of our percussion equipment is on the auditorium stage. With the use of the auditorium for various school events, equipment is being used without our approval, causing equipment to get damaged, or go missing. This drastically affects our students' ability to learn in a negative way. With the recent addition of marching equipment and a couple drum sets, the storage cabinets will allow us to lock everything up so it's only used for our students.
One spring concert all of our bucket drums were taken, and I had to run to the local hardware store minutes before the concert started to pay for new buckets out of my own pocket.
With 30+ students in our program it gets expensive, and this was the 2nd instance that particular school year that this happened. Additionally, last year the auditorium ceiling collapsed due to a roof leak. our equipment was damaged as debris fell onto the drums, breaking drumheads on multiple drums. To make matters worse, the equipment wasn't moved when they repaired the ceiling, leaving all of it exposed to plaster, drywall, and spackle. Being assigned to the school 1 day/week makes it difficult to keep everything maintained unless it can be locked away. The storage cabinets will allow us to do just that.
The cabinents will fill a space on the wing of the stage, where the current percussion equipment is stored unsecured. The marching equipment we received will be used to start a drumline at our school - which will perform at our school pep-rally's, annual Autism walk, and more. We will be able to lock everything up when not in use to confirm the equipment is in tip top shape for the students who need it the most!
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